Barack Obama’s Park Slope days; where your favorite writers lived; top photographer snaps up High Line condo; local news anchor goes low key with ‘burg townhouse.

Park Slope POTUS: Barack Obama spent part of the mid-eighties residing with a girlfriend on the top floor of a lovely historic brownstone on 2nd Street near 8th Avenue in Park Slope, on the same block that is now home to literary luminary Jonathan Safran Foer (The L Magazine). In the neighborhood: Starchitect Richard Meier’s 1 Grand Army Plaza is just across the plaza on Prospect Park.

Literary NYC: This map offers a mini-tour of the apartments where some of our celebrated literary luminaries have toiled at their craft. The trail of typewriters leads to many a historic townhouse like the one in which Edna St. Vincent Millay lived in the ‘20s, but also a few grand NYC apartment buildings like the Apthorp at 390 West End Avenue (Joseph Heller, Nora Ephron, Joan Didion) and the Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (Carson McCullers, poet Charles Henri Ford, playwright William Inge) (CurbedNY).

High style on the High Line: Noted fashion photographer Norma Jean Rae (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar) just bought a 2,519 square-foot two-bedroom unit in the new condominium apartments at 245 Tenth Avenue, which is 90 percent sold (or in contract). The 11-story building is instantly recognizable–even in an area where architectural innovation is nothing new–by its stamped stainless steel panels that form a faceted diamond pattern interspersed with clear glass (TheRealDeal). In the neighborhood: Annabelle Selldorf’s tall-windowed 200 Eleventh Avenue, a shining example of Far West Chelsea’s best new architecture, London Terrace at 410 West 24th Street, a pre-war classic from the days when trains ran along the High Line.

TV newsman drops anchor on Bedford: NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan has been in the news himself lately for his move to Williamsburg. That might not seem like an odd thing, as the neighborhood has become a magnet for notable neighbors in recent years. But Kiernan and family have eschewed the area’s amenity-packed modern glass towers–like the one at 125 North Tenth Street–for a quirky, though admittedly spacious, single-family townhouse on main drag Bedford Avenue (CurbedNY).